MIRKO GALLO

MICRO-NANOFLUIDICS – Academic Year 2026/2027

The course will begin on Monday, 28 September, at 8:00 a.m. in Room 13.
The regular timetable will be:

• Mondays, 8:00–10:00 a.m., Room 13
• Tuesdays, 8:00–11:00 a.m., Room 13

The first lectures will also be streamed online to allow students who have not yet arrived in Rome to attend remotely.
Zoom link:
https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/88120984416?pwd=4m0OLbdhtbPbg1Oe2c4p2FbDF0WaQu.1

LAB OF ACOUSTICS IN LIQUID–GAS MEDIA – Academic Year 2026/2027

The course will begin on Wednesday, 30 September, at 9:00 a.m. and will consist of ten three-hour sessions, held every Wednesday at the same time and in the same room.
The lectures will take place in the Videoconference Room at DIMA. The room is located on the first floor, through the door to the right of the Boaga Library and opposite the Head of Department’s office. Please ring the bell labelled “Gallo” to gain access to the building

SHORT BIO:

As of 2025, Mirko Gallo is an Associate Professor of Fluid Mechanics in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome and a Fellow of the Sapienza School of Advanced Studies. His research focuses on mesoscale modelling of fluids within a multidisciplinary framework that integrates fluid mechanics, statistical mechanics, applied mathematics, high-performance computing, and soft-matter physics, enabling multiscale investigations of complex fluids and flows. He received the AIMETA Junior Prize for Fluid Mechanics in 2022 and was awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2024.

Previous Positions:

2023-2025 Assistant professor (RTDA), Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome.
2022–2023: Research Fellow in Computational Physics, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
2019–2022: Postdoctoral Researcher in Fluid Mechanics, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
2015–2019: PhD Student in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Thesis title: Fluctuating Hydrodynamics Model for Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Nucleation.
Supervisor: Prof. Carlo Massimo Casciola.